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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.